Hero of the Month: Dame Elizabeth Taylor

From AMERICAblog Gay and posted by Liz Newcomb. Here's a snippet that appears about half-way through the piece:

I’ve always associated Taylor with AIDS activism. However, I did not realize the magnitude of her impact until I began to research this piece. Taylor made AIDS her life’s cause. At a time when the disease was called "the gay plague" and others were afraid to even touch people with HIV, Taylor employed her star power to help humanize those living with the disease. She made headlines throughout the world when she was photographed shaking hands with HIV/AIDS patients in a Thai hospital. She helped found the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amFAR) in 1985, and later, in 1991, the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation (ETAF).

The rest is a must-read for anyone who lived through the beginnings of the epidemic witnessing the horrible, tragic, and sometimes brutal treatment of people with AIDS.

This deserves attention, believe me.

And so it goes.
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